A healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugal

Anjos, Marcelo R.; Pelegrini, Larissa S.; Barreiros, João B. V.; Barcelos, Luis M. D.; Barreiros, João P.

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Anjos, Marcelo R.

Pelegrini, Larissa S.

Barreiros, João B. V.

Barcelos, Luis M. D.

Barreiros, João P.

Abstract(s)

This paper details and discusses a helix-induced injury to the right anterior shell of a seemingly healthy subadult loggerhead turtle. On 10 September 2018, two of the authors (JBB and JPB) located a loggerhead sea turtle resting on the rocky reef bottom at a depth of about 10 m while freediving off the southeastern coast of Terceira Island, Azores [...]

Keywords

Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) Tartaruga Marinha Marine Turtles Azores

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6097

Citation

Anjos, M.R., Pelegrini, L.S., Barreiros, J.B., Barcelos, L.M.D. & Barreiros, J.P. (2021). A healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugal. "Herpetology Notes", 14, 981-984.